The psychology of design: John Roa shares a look inside AKTA
“The cruel truth is that I’m not even a designer today,” said John Roa, founder of AKTA design studio. But if he was never a designer, then what made AKTA one of Chicago’s most sought-after design studios, and Roa one of Chicago’s most influential entrepreneurs? Roa’s journey was riddled with successes, failures and a carefully [...]... Read More
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CEO Sundays: Start a Second Family At the Office
BY: Felix LluberesIn the midst of a month filled with New Year’s resolutions and positive thinking – there’s no better time to treat your business team just like a family. This can be something as small as hosting a happy hour for your coworkers, or maybe something that goes a bit further (which I’ll get to [...]
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PositiveTALK Combats Trolling On The Internet
BY: Kathryn HoughFlorida-based startup PositiveTALK wants to measure and reward positivity online.
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Florida-based Red Lambda Breaks The Big Data And Security Barrier
BY: Kathryn HoughAs part of Florida’s high-tech corridor, Red Lambda seeks to take over 1 percent of the $220 billion global cybersecurity market over the next three years,
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Former FBI Most Wanted Hacker Teams Up With Top IT Security Expert To Fight Cyber Theft
BY: Kathryn HoughEastern European cyber crime is so pervasive that even luxury car dealers have sprung up in the impoverished country of Romania to service newly rich hackers.
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How 3dcart Bootstrapped To Success And Continues To Grow 40% Per Year
BY: Kathryn Hough3dcart boasts 16,000 clients in 12 countries and more than 100 partners including Google, PayPal, and the United States Postal Service that all use the company’s e-commerce and shopping cart solutions. 3dCart is a classic example of bootstrapping a company to success.
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The Other Bay Area: Why You Should Pay Attention To Tampa Bay’s Growing Startup Scene
BY: Kathryn HoughThe next time someone mentions that they are moving to “the Bay Area” to launch their startup, they may not be heading west to San Francisco. Instead, they may be trekking to the southeast to launch their company in the other bay area: Tampa Bay, Florida.
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EarlyShares Announces $1.15M Series A Funding To Grow Its Crowdfunding Platform
BY: Lindsay ONealMiami-based Crowdfunding platform EarlyShares raised a Series A funding of more than $1.15 million dollars, a further indication of the growing crowdfunding market.
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Launch Your Company And Get A Tan: The Best Startup Funding Resources In Florida
BY: Kathryn HoughThanks to strong partnerships between local government funding initiatives, university support, and private investment, Florida-based startups have more funding options available than ever before.
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With $1M In Tow, Shadow Health Graduates From University of Florida Innovation Hub
BY: Corey CummingsShadow Health Inc. has developed an interactive learning platform for medical students to sharpen their one-on-one diagnosis skills with a virtual patient in a doctor’s office setting.
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Over 15,000 Rides Given, RedCap Looks To Expand On-Demand Personal Driver Service
BY: Lindsay ONealUnlike taxis or hiring a full-time personal driver, RedCap allows members to summon their own affordable driver for a single occasion, who will make sure both you and your car get to your destination safely.
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Sumpto Helps Brands Reach The Advertising-Agnostic College Crowd
BY: Corey CummingsSumpto, a freshly-launched Miami startup, is aiming to leverage the viral social network sharing of college students to connect brands with the advertising-agnostic college audience.
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Nearpod: Synced Screens Are The Future Of Classroom Tablets
BY: Jon ChristianA Miami-based educational startup says that synced screens could be the missing puzzle piece to making mobile technology easy and effective in the classroom.
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Iconify Stabilizes Your Art Portfolio Across The Web And Mobile Devices
BY: Corey CummingsA Florida-based startup has created the ultimate solution for photographers looking to showcase their work on a variety of platforms with ease.
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Unrabble: Revolutionizing How Companies Search For Candidates
BY: Corey CummingsFlorida-based hiring solution Unrabble launched its resume-alternative service in September of last year — a new hiring solution looking to change the game by allowing businesses to smartly search rich profiles instead of traditional resumés.
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Half Of Pregnancies Are Unplanned. Fortunately, MyPill Is The App For That
BY: Jon ChristianSome of the most common methods of contraception are also the most likely to fail, according to new research at Washington University — and those failures are due to user error rather than anything inherently ineffective about hormonal birth control pills or the contraceptive patch. But without resorting to other birth control methods, is there any way mobile developers can increase the effectiveness of common contraceptives?
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BizHappy: Mobile Marketing For Main Street
BY: Kathryn HoughBizHappy is the first mobile marketing app to understand exactly what small businesses need to get started with mobile marketing.
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Can Stringfly Commoditize Citizen Journalism?
BY: Jon ChristianIs Stringfly going to succeed by commoditizing citizen journalism, or by rewarding users who fill out surveys and plug products on social media?
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Brevidy Wants to Change the Way We Watch Videos
BY: Andrew TorbaWatching and sharing videos on the Internet has always been a very static process. Although popular platforms like YouTube try to recommend new videos based on a user’s viewing, search and upload history, there’s one missing ingredient to their curation method: organic recommendations. Florida-based Brevidy, a video social network that recently launched a beautiful new redesign, hopes [...]
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Collaborative Bioscience: A Medical Sales Rep’s Worst Nightmare
BY: Edward DomainMedical device salesman and University of Miami Florida entrepreneur Mark Slaughter had an idea. While selling medical devices to hospital groups around South Florida, he realized that many of these groups were spending their precious capital inefficiently by over-purchasing expensive equipment. “The typical health system for a city has five hospitals in it,” said Slaughter. “I [...]
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Unthink: The Anti-Facebook
BY: Claire BeDellAmerica’s growing hostility towards The Man has become increasingly evident in the past few months. Most recently it’s manifested itself in Tampa – headquartered Unthink.com, the anti-Facebook social network.
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Look And Donate Like Your Favorite Star With YouCeleb
BY: Michelle DoellmanEntire websites are devoted to identifying what celebrities are wearing and where to get that exact item or at the very least, a cheaper lookalike. But how about taking it one step further and having a Groupon-like place where proceeds from the sale go to the celeb’s charity of choice? Miami-based YouCeleb does just that.
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